Top 100 Hits from 1960 to 1969

Position	Artist	Title
01	The Beatles	She Loves You
02	Mr Acker Bilk	Stranger On The Shore
03	Engelbert Humperdinck	Release Me
04	Frank Ifield	I Remember You
05	Ken Dodd	Tears
06	Engelbert Humperdinck	The Last Waltz
07	The Shadows	Wonderful Land
08	Tom Jones	Green Green Grass Of Home
09	Elvis Presley	It's Now Or Never
10	The Tornados	Telstar
11	The Beatles	From Me To You
12	Cliff Richard	The Young Ones
13	Elvis Presley	Wooden Heart
14	Jim Reeves	Distant Drums
15	Del Shannon	Runaway
16	The Everly Brothers	Cathy's Clown
17	Mary Hopkin	Those Were The Days
18	Archies	Sugar Sugar
19	Louis Armstrong	What A Wonderful World / Cabaret
20	Helen Shapiro	You Don't Know
21	Elvis Presley	Can't Help Falling In Love / Rock-A-Hula Baby
22	The Shadows	Apache
23	Shirley Bassey	As Long As He Needs Me
24	Frank Ifield	Lovesick Blues
25	Cliff Richard	Please Don't Tease
26	Anthony Newley	Why
27	Jim Reeves	I Love You Because
28	The Scaffold	Lily The Pink
29	Hugo Montenegro	The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
30	Elvis Presley	Good Luck Charm
31	Cliff Richard	The Next Time / Bachelor Boy
32	The Beatles	I Want To Hold Your Hand
33	Helen Shapiro	Walking Back To Happiness
34	Roy Orbison	Only The Lonely
35	Scott Mckenzie	San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
36	Des O'Connor	I Pretend
37	Beatles With Billy Preston	Get Back
38	Gerry & The Pacemakers	You'll Never Walk Alone
39	The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Women
40	Procol Harum	A Whiter Shade Of Pale
41	John Leyton	Johnny Remember Me
42	Chubby Checker	Let's Twist Again
43	Jim Reeves	I Won't Forget You
44	The Seekers	The Carnival Is Over
45	Dave Clark Five	Glad All Over
46	Engelbert Humperdinck	There Goes My Everything
47	Union Gap	Young Girl
48	The Beatles	Hello Goodbye
49	Roy Orbison	Oh Pretty Woman
50	Jimmy Jones	Handy Man
51	Roy Orbison	It's Over
52	Frank Sinatra	Strangers In The Night
53	Eden Kane	Well I Ask You
54	Gerry & The Pacemakers	How Do You Do It?
55	The Beatles	Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out
56	The Everly Brothers	Walk Right Back / Ebony Eyes
57	Mike Sarne With Wendy Richard	Come Outside
58	Gerry & The Pacemakers	I Like It
59	Sandie Shaw	Puppet On A String
60	The Monkees	I'm A Believer
61	Elvis Presley	Mess Of Blues
62	Frank Ifield	Confessin'
63	The Bee Gees	Massachusetts
64	Allisons	Are You Sure
65	Billy Fury	Halfway To Paradise
66	Fleetwood Mac	Albatross
67	Ray Charles	I Can't Stop Loving You
68	The Seekers	I'll Never Find Another You
69	Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra	Somethin' Stupid
70	Jimmy Jones	Good Timin'
71	Elvis Presley	Return To Sender
72	The Drifters	Save The Last Dance For Me
73	Tommy James & The Shondells	Mony Mony
74	The Beatles	I Feel Fine
75	Peter Sarstedt	Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
76	Joe Brown	A Picture Of You
77	Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg	Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus
78	Adam Faith	Poor Me
79	Tom Jones	I'll Never Fall In Love Again
80	The Beatles	All You Need Is Love
81	Cliff Richard	Summer Holiday
82	Cliff Richard	I Love You
83	Danny Williams	Moon River
84	The Beatles	Hey Jude
85	Anthony Newley	Do You Mind?
86	Ned Miller	From A Jack To A King
87	Elvis Presley	Are You Lonesome Tonight?
88	Marvin Gaye	I Heard It Through The Grapevine
89	Johnny Preston	Running Bear
90	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night
91	Chris Montez	Let's Dance
92	Elvis Presley	His Latest Flame / Little Sisters
93	Pat Boone	Speedy Gonzales
94	Elvis Presley	Surrender
95	Eddie Cochran	Three Steps To Heaven
96	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bad Moon Rising
97	Ricky Valance	Tell Laura I Love Her
98	Cilla Black	You're My World
99	The Beatles	Help!
100	Marmalade	Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da

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A Synopsis of The Years From 1960 to 1969

The 1960's was a decade of huge change in virtually every imaginable way. Across the Atlantic, the decade started with John F. Kennedy defeating Richard Nixon to become the 35th US President. The decade would end with Nixon in the White House, Kennedy having been assassinated and Lyndon B Johnson, Kennedy's successor being instrumental in a huge escalation of the US involvement in the Vietnam war.

The space race between Russia and America was hotting up with Russia being first into space and first to orbit the earth. However, by the end of the 60's, America had overtaken Russia with the Apollo space programme responsible for successful manned moon landings.

The cold war was at its height with the erection of the Berlin wall to segregate the Russian controlled East from West Berlin. which was part of West Germany, but completely surrounded by East Germany.

In sport, Sir Francis Chichester sailed straight into the record books for his solo crossing of the Atlantic. The Tokyo Olympics would make household names of Lynn Davies, Ann Packer and Mary Rand, whilst The Mexico Olympics were memorable for the British double medal success in the 400m hurdles with David Hemery and John Sherwood. A new high jump technique was unleashed on the world by Dick Fosbury whose "Fosbury Flop" would henceforth be the method universally adopted. And oh yes, I almost forgot, England won the football World Cup.

In literature, we saw the publication of best sellers "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Catch 22", "Tropic of Cancer", and "Dune". Television continued to make great strides with the introduction of 625 lines coinciding with the launch of BBC2, the second BBC TV channel. Later in the decade, BBC2 would be the first UK channel to broadcast in colour and by the end of the decade, all three TV channels were broadcasting regularly in colour.

The creation of "ARPANET", the forerunner of today’s internet, and the invention of the microprocessor would lay firm foundations for the technological shake-ups which would occur in decades to come.

Musically, the decade would start much the same as the 50’s had ended, but by 1963, the face of British music would be transformed by the rocketing to prominence of a huge number of "provincial" groups with Liverpool acts such as The Beatles, The Searchers, Gerry and The Pacemakers and Cilla Black to the fore. Not to be outdone, bands from the south of England such as the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks also started to feature in the charts, whilst from the US, Elvis was still the King and Jim Reeves was selling well to country fans: the Motown factory was cranking out a string of hits and people were starting to talk about Bob Dylan as though he were the next Messiah.

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